Tag: restapi

RESTful Web Services REST stands for REpresentational State Transfer. REST is web standards based architecture and uses HTTP Protocol. It revolves around a resource where every component is a resource and a resource is accessed by a common interface using HTTP standard methods. REST was first introduced by Roy Fielding in 2000. In REST architecture, a REST Server simply provides access to resources and REST client accesses and modifies the resources. Here each resource is identified by URIs/ global IDs. REST uses various representations to represent a resource like text, JSON, XML. JSON is the most popular one. HTTP methods Following four HTTP methods are commonly used in REST based architecture. GET − Provides a read only access to a resource. POST − Used to create a new resource. DELETE − Used to remove a resource. PUT − Used to update an existing resource or create a new resource.